The Holy Bible contains the old and new testaments. Many people try to downplay the old testament because it goes against their partisan propaganda. They say it doesn't count...only read and follow the new testament. Why include the old testament at all? If you're going to thump the Holy Bible, you can't disregard a massive portion of it and still say the Holy Bible...As a whole...is the word of god.

Intelligent religious people recognize that the Judaeo-Christian Bible (both testaments) contain bits that proscribe positive, beneficial behavior ... and bits that proscribe reprehensible, sociopathic behavior. And decent religious people are smart enough to gloss over the reprehensible bits, or re-interpret them as metaphors.

The Old Testament was written by Jews influenced by God. Stories of the flood, Abraham the father of the Jews, Leviticus the law, Many books of Prophets, Proverbs for wisdom, Psalms or songs from David. The Old Testament is said to be of value to Christians for the foretelling of the coming Messiah. The New Testament is the story of the Messiah which is the New Covenant . Jews lived under the law, Christians do not live under Old Testament laws the same as Jews. Christians are influenced by Old Testament laws because the same God influenced the Jews to write those laws. Assuming Christians should stone Gays because Jews did is not relevant. Jews had punishments for those laws 1000 years before Christianity began and Christianity never was a Theocracy like Judaism was.